IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Indus
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN1372565
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN1372565
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2565
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50734
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 47.7477684
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8239899
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 61N
  • Range: 19W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4SW1/4SW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN137—St. Louis
  • MLRA: 88—Northern Minnesota Glacial Lake Basins
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-BEM—Bemidji, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN621—St. Louis County, Minnesota, Virginia Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47092-F7—Dark Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JE, TR, LK, AJ
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, frigid Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Indus
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Indus
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/4/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey lacustrine deposits
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/4/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
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    Oe—0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # MN256501
    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    A2—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN256502
    Btg1—10 to 48 centimeters (3.9 to 18.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 26 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent fine distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN256503
    Btg2—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 26 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent fine prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN256504
    Bkg—71 to 107 centimeters (28.0 to 42.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay; moderate medium platy, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent fine distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN256505